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Working on a Fall Exhibition

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I have an exhibition in November at the Lake George Arts Project Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, New York. I am starting work on the artwork this week, and I wanted to share with you my work process.

This is a video of me printing about 4000 leaves for a show I just had in New York at Wave Hill. 

After three months of printing leaves, and mountains and bears, and assorted other plants,  I cut them all apart. I love to see how several months of  printing will accumulate enough to  transform a large gallery space.

This is what the final exhibition looked like:

Hilary Lorenz, Wave Hill, Oct-Dec 2014

Hilary Lorenz, Wave Hill, Oct-Dec 2014

Hilary Lorenz, Nomadic Geography, Wave Hill, Oct-Dec 2014

Hilary Lorenz, Nomadic Geography, Wave Hill, Oct-Dec 2014

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Hilary Lorenz Exhibition at Wave Hill

Hilary Lorenz Exhibition at Wave Hill

For Lake George I will do a combination of a wilderness installation and several small printed pieces. But as you can see, it is a lot of printing which I love to do. For the next several months in between my smaller sized print a day project, I will post periodically to show you how this exhibition is unfolding. I am pretty excited about it.

Finally if you read this far, I put a few t-shirts on Etsy, you can use yesterdays 20% off code for those as well.

Pisces Linocut, it is almost your birthday!

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Pisces Linocut 10" x 8"

Pisces Linocut 10″ x 8″

Now on Etsy for $20, just click here, there are 10 available.

It is almost your birthday time, Pisces. Do you or a friend have a birthday between February 20 and March 20th? This would make a great gift. This linocut of the Pisces two fish, swimming, each have a chine colle, a collage while printing, of antique Italian printed paper, one is red and one blue.

Print comes unmatted and unframed, picture of framed work is only an example. Image is 4″ x 6″ printed onto Rived BFK paper, 10″ x 8″.

This print is the forth print completed in February as part of my print a day project.
stonetrigger_press_linocut_pisces

Each print is hand printed by the artist, me, Hilary Lorenz in my studio in New Mexico. Each morning I carve a new animal into my linoleum and print an edition of 10 and by 6pm MT, I put them on Etsy. 

Free Willy! February Print of the Day Project, #1, $20

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linoleum cut, whale, killer whale

Free Willy, Orca Linocut Print

10 Orca Whale Prints now on Etsy, $20 each, just click here. 

January 1, I began the 30 prints in 30 days project with a jumping Dolphin, it sold out. With February here, my print of the day project will begin with a jumping Orca “Killer Whale” affectionately known as “Free Willy.

Table of prints drying

Table of prints drying

“Free Willy” is a two color linocut with blue water and a black Orca.
The two linoleum blocks are hand printed, the image is 5″ wide and 6.5″ tall printed onto 8″ x 10″ Rives BFK Paper in an edition of 10. Once the 10 are gone, no more Orca’s are available.

Full paper 10" x 8" paper with linocut

Full paper 10″ x 8″ paper with linocut

Just click over to Etsy and get your very limited edition Free Willy Linocut today.  And as always I love your comments and requests!

Day 29, print 29, Panda Linocut

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Panda

Panda

It is Pandaemonium! Now on Etsy, An 8″ x 10″ linocut in an edition of 10. The image size is 5″ x 7″ a little bigger than my usual 4″ x 6″ because I wanted to get a lot of Panda details.

Panda_linocut
Check out this whole table of panda’s. You probably know that panda’s are from China, but did you know that they grow as large as 250 pounds and eat bamboo almost exclusively? I wonder if that could happen to me, if I ate enough kale?
table_of_panda_linocutsIn planning the future of these daily prints, I did a little printing experiment. What do you think?

Linocut Printed T-shirt

Linocut Printed T-shirt

I am thinking a small line of t-shirts might be very interesting. Let me know.

Damselfly for the Dragonfly, Print #28 of 30

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Damselfly

Damselfly

I have a damselfly for your dragonfly.  These two beautiful linoleum block prints would look great together. The image is 6″ x 4″ printed on 10″ x 8″ Rives BFK, in an edition of 10 is now on Etsy.

There was gorgeous light coming into my studio today when I photographed the whole edition of damselflies.

Table of DamselFlies

Table of DamselFlies

Did you know that Dragonflies and Damselflies are prehistoric insects, older than the dinosaur. It is true, you can read about it on the San Diego Zoo website.

The damselfly, like the dragonfly is also a rainbow roll color but the damselfly  is yellow to green to blue.
Damsel_fly

This is day 28 of making one print a day for 30 days. Three of the editions are sold out and there is incredible support to keep going. I never dreamt this would take off like it did, but all of you are amazing to keep coming back, checking out the prints, and giving them great homes. I love the stories you send me and please you are welcome to post photos of your displayed prints on my FB page. On January 30th I will let you know how the project will continue to unfold.

Here are detail thumbnails of all the prints, which you can also see and collect on Etsy.

30 prints in 30 days

30 prints in 30 days

 

Dragonfly from the land of Faerie. Print #27 of 30

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world of magic, wings, spirit animal

Dragonfly

From the world of magic at speeds of up to 30mph comes the dragonfly. This 6″ x 4″ image on 10″ x 8″ Rives BFK, in an edition of 10 is now on Etsy.

I have a whole table of 10 Dragonflys drying.

dragonfly_linoleum_block_prints

Printed in a rainbow roll of pink to magenta to blue it looked amazing next to the blue/grey elephants I printed yesterday.

Dragonfly vs elephant

Dragonfly vs elephant

It is hard to believe that so far 27 prints in 27 days, along with a few bonus prints. Three days to go to complete 30 prints in 30 days. But the fun is just starting here at Stonetrigger Press. I have a big announcement to make on the 30th as to where this 30 prints in 30 days project is headed. And it is very exciting!

30 prints in 30 days

30 prints in 30 days

Conrad! Print #25 of 30

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Conrad, age 7

Conrad, age 7

Conrad, linoleum block print, now on Etsy. 

This is Conrad, one of my two Labradors. He was a rescue as a puppy from North Shore Animal Shelter, NY. Yesterday we had a rough day, Conrad, Homer and I ran into a pack of feral dogs while out on our walk. Conrad got a  bit on his hind quarters.  We spent all morning in the vets office getting him fixed up. Homer was so sad, he just stood stunned and crying after I got the dogs to run away. I have never seen anything like it. But if you know labs, they are happy within seconds of just about anything!

Conrad

Conrad

This print is for Conrad, my rough and tumble, used to be afraid of everything dog, now friendly as can be and totally happy-go-lucky, even with big tooth holes in his leg. Conrad is a very special dog. He even likes his print.

2nd take Hilary and Conrad

2nd take Hilary and Conrad

This is print 25 of 30 in a project of 30 prints in 30 days. Each image is 4″ x 6″ printed onto Rives BFK paper. They are printed in an edition of 10 and always only $20 and available on Etsy. 

Octopus, print # 21 of 30

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Pink to purple Octopus

Pink to purple Octopus

For my Octopus loving fans I have a special print for you today, print #21 of 30, the pink to purple rainbow rolled linoleum block print, now available on Etsy. 

Ink Rainbow Roll

Ink Rainbow Roll

Using this fun technique of rainbow rolling, two or more colors together, I created a nice gradient across the body of the octopus.

Octopus Linoleum Block

Octopus Linoleum Block

Here is a picture of the linoleum block on the press bed.

Close up of Octopus Linoleum Block Print

Close up of Octopus Linoleum Block Print

A close up of the 6″ x 4″ block, it is printed onto 10″ x 8″ Rives BFK paper in an edition of 10.

Table of Octopus

Table of Octopus

And of course we can’t do without the whole table of Octopi.

This is print 21 of  my 30 prints in 30 days project. I make one print daily in an edition of 10. It is available at 8pmEST on my Etsy StoneTrigger Press store.  

Elk in the Forest, print 19 of 30

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elk_framedI don’t know where else you would see an Elk but in the wilderness, and then only if you are lucky. But unless one of my dear followers suggestions a catchier title, “Elk in the Wilderness” will be it. This 10″ x 8″ two color print is now on my Etsy store!

This two color print was first printed with a block of green foliage over the whole 10″ x 8″ piece of Rives BFK paper. Then the Elk was printed in a slightly translucent brown with a hint of green ink. Here is a detail:
elk_detail
All together they make a great pattern, I almost want to print fabric that looks like this:

Table of Elk

Table of Elk

Today was a pretty remarkable day. I am glad I took the day off yesterday so that I could not only offer you two prints today, but two two color prints at that!

Elk print and Frog print side by side

Elk print and Frog print side by side

Both are on StoneTrigger Press Etsy store now. And as always, one print a day, alway 8″ x 10″, always $20 and always made by me with love.

Better Late than never, Print 18 of 30, underwater frog!

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Framed underwater frog

Framed underwater frog

Do you know frogs breath through their skin when they are underwater? That a frog can hibernate all winter in mud, breathing through it’s skin and living off it’s fat? This frog is a swimmer, right now he is just hanging out at the bottom of the creek, resting, but he is ready to kick to the surface at any time. Now on Etsy for $20.

This is a two color, 2 layer print, the wavy blue background is printed onto 10″ x 8″ Rives BFK paper, and the frog is printed in green and translucent, you can see the translucency in the detail, the frog is 6″ x 4″. The hand printed block does not come framed, it is only for reference.

Frog Detail

Frog Detail

Each print is hand printed by the artist, me, Hilary Lorenz in my studio in New Mexico. For the month of January 2015 I will make one new image each day and offer it that day. I will only print 10 and I ship them out after 2-3 days – once the ink dries. This is print number 18 out of 30

Table of Frog

Table of Frog

Click here to link to my Etsy store where you can see the other 17 prints completed over January

10" x 8" underwater frog

10″ x 8″ underwater frog